Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician He was born on 18 April 1934, the son of William Henry John, a painter and decorator, and Sarah Jane John. He received his education at Wood Road elementary school, Treforest, Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School and University College, London. He graduated Ll. B. (Hons.) in 1954. He was an articled clerk, 1954-57 and he became a solicitor in 1957. He was on National Service, 1958-60, serving as an
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal George John was born in Pen-rhiw in the parish of Eglwys Wen, Pembrokeshire, on 8 November 1918, the son of William and Margaret John. He had one sister, Mattie, and two half-sisters from his widowed father's first marriage. He was educated in the local primary school and in Cardigan County School. He was baptised in Bethabara Baptist church and there, under the ministry of the Reverend Lewis
JOHN, GWENDOLEN MARY (1876 - 1939), artist Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 22 June 1876, the second child of Edwin William John and Augusta (née Smith) and the elder sister of Augustus John. She was educated at Tenby, where the family moved after her mother died in 1884. She continued to draw from childhood, and her first surviving oil paintings are a portrait of her younger sister Winifred (Tenby Museum) and a view of Tenby harbour
JOHN, HENRY (1664 - 1754), hymnist number of Welsh works, at the instigation of Miles Harry. A second edition appeared at Carmarthen in 1773 and a fifth in 1817, but the hymns are more remarkable for their piety than for their poetry. His 'Can am Briodas' was printed in William Secker's Y Fodrwy Briodas (Trevecca, 1791). Benjamin Francis wrote an elegy to his memory, and Joshua Thomas in his Hanes y Bedyddwyr (1778), 249, gives high
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor Neobard Scholarship endowed in 1926 to help Baptist students to study in Mansfield College, he went to Oxford to read theology. However, because he missed most of his final year's study through illness, he was unable to complete his study in Mansfield and left in 1937 without graduating. In spite of this he was offered the opporunity of proceeding to a B.Litt. and was due to write a thesis on William
JOHN, THOMAS GEORGE (1880 - 1946), engineer and businessman Thomas John was born on 18 November 1880 in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, the second of four children of William H. John, a shipwright, and his wife Maria (née Rees). He grew up in a Welsh-speaking household with two brothers and a sister. After a local education he became an apprentice at the naval dockyard where his father worked. He impressed his employers and won two scholarships to study at
JOHN, Sir WILLIAM GOSCOMBE (1860 - 1952), sculptor and medallist Born in Cardiff on 21 February 1860, the son of Thomas John of Llantrithyd, Glamorganshire and Elizabeth (née Smith) of Randwick, Gloucestershire. His father was a woodcarver to the third Marquis of Bute and William assisted him with carvings at Cardiff Castle from 1874. He attended Cardiff Art School 1871-1881 and was taught anatomy from 1876 by the local coach painter James Philpotts. John was
JOHNES, JOHN (1800 - 1876), barrister-at-law and county court judge much to keep his own district quiet, and in 1843 he wrote An Address to the Inhabitants of Conwil-Caio …; this was also published by William Rees, Llandovery, in a Welsh translation: Annerchiad at Drigolion Plwyf Conwil-Gaio, yn Swydd Gaerfyrddin a'r Plwyfau Cym'Dogaethol. Besides being an able lawyer, he was a keen agriculturist and antiquary. He was murdered by his Irish butler at Dolau Cothi on 19
JOHNES, THOMAS (1748 - 1816), landowner and man of letters , and trees were planted on land unsuitable for cropping. Johnes obtained the Royal Society of Arts medal five times for planting trees; he encouraged his tenants to improve their farming; he published in 1800 A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants, and a Welsh translation of it by William Owen Pughe, and he offered prizes for good crops. He was also one of the chief supporters of the
JOHNS, DAVID (1796 - 1843), one of the London Missionary Society missionaries in Madagascar Son of John Jones of Llain, Llanina, Cardiganshire. He was a member of the Independent church at Penrhiwgaled. After being trained at Neuadd-lwyd Academy, Newtown Academy, and at Gosport, he was ordained to the mission field, 16 February 1826. He married Mary, daughter of William Thomas (1749 - 1809), Independent minister at Bala. He took out to Madagascar a printing press and spinning-jenny and
JOHNS, WILLIAM (1771 - 1845), Unitarian minister, tutor, and writer
JOHNS, WILLIAM NICHOLAS (1834 - 1898), printer, antiquarian, newspaper proprietor, and editor

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